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Show Boulder High School Science Club Enjoys Tour of Cave Springs, Needles "For 31 students of the Boulder High School Science Club, the recent Fall field trip to the Nordics Section ef C.'inyonlands National Park was an unforgettable experience. "For four days the student stu-dent hiktd foot trails, rattled rat-tled over 4-wheil drive road? clambered up towering monoliths mon-oliths cf Cedar-Mis;! saal-stor.e, saal-stor.e, and traipsed along precipitous canyan rims in their quest to bettor understand under-stand the way, the magnifi-cant magnifi-cant canyonlands were formed. "The explorations often led to Indian ruins and cliff dwellings where evidences of centuries-old art-paintings on the walls of cliff-"-stocd as nv.ite reminders if an early epoch in man's history. his-tory. . "." So read an article in The Eou'der Daily Camera last week reportirg the Colorado Science Club tour. The gre-up walked the Cave-Spring Cave-Spring Environmental Trail, under the guidance of Ran-pT Ran-pT Phil Hastings. "Phil offered of-fered our group a unique opportunity op-portunity to participate in a totally new program" their instructor. Richard Holland noted. "The Cave Spring Trail is a microcosm el Southwest hislory. As one walks he sees the forces of nature forming fu'ure Car.-yrnlands: Car.-yrnlands: he recognizes ihe litn ininnrlniii.li .if Ull 1)111. III.IM'I 'lllll Ml 1 II- II living organism to the total to-tal scheme of life. Amid this soiling, man Is In'rodueed. and his contributions assessed, as-sessed, from early Anasazi to the recent cowboy, anal finally to 2nih century man." The significance of the trip came into focus as the sliiidents mi't wilh Ranger Hastings around Hie camp-fire, camp-fire, One student replied "1 have slept in a cave prob-ahlv prob-ahlv used bv I he ancient Anasazi An-asazi and I think I know him heller." Others were incensed incens-ed that amid the Anas v.l art and the mai'nifieance of yv ' From the Canyons . . . ! National Park Sen ice 1 ,VfeWv . ! Department of the Interior - N"r Canyonlands Arches Bridges Canyonlands. there was a trash heap. On top was tho d'searded first stage of en Athena rocket. "We're going to write a letter and te'l the government that if fry insist on dropping their trasji, li t tlu m come oa". and pick it up", they exclaimed. ex-claimed. The trash pile a good purpose. pur-pose. It emphasized to the-students the-students one of the purposes of the rnvirnnm ntal awareness aware-ness pre-LTam, to teach the fer'h"e.mirg generation that, the world ums not created for man to exploit. Natural resources are exhaustible, even beauty. Cavo Springs A chuekbox baking po v-dr. v-dr. lard, salt, an old spoon. Just the csseniials Ever cat Dutch oven cooking? cook-ing? Or cook year steak on a juivper log fire? Ae.i the r.-st - a bedsprin",. a table coffee cans around llv legs to keep the pack rats off Hie hot cakes Men livi d here Cowboys, right here. A miserable kind cf ovs-lanre We paint it f::'l of color: romatic but it was raw and monotonous, mono-tonous, a pre'ty rotten standard stand-ard f living ur.le.-s the scenery of this land the red rovks of the Canyon country, cotton-woods cotton-woods along a stream, its heritage in mth and Indian In-dian arrowheads and pots painted crudly by-seme by-seme 8K1- yoar-doad squaw would round up a cow. They probably didn't. Most cf the cowboys left as soon as thoy could. Now we pick over theT Ion ly world: visitors from somewhere else, savoring a world a solitude we barely comprehend from a new kind of lore-1'tiess lore-1'tiess The overwhelnrng pres T.ee of our civilization. F.aeh of us leaves for the next age to conjure con-jure with what we value least. Our trash: the niusciiai p:oees of Hie future. |